Favourite Led Zeppelin album?
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Topic: Favourite Led Zeppelin album?
Posted By: coykiesaol
Subject: Favourite Led Zeppelin album?
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 22:57
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Anything from Led Zep I - Physical Graffitti I suppose. None of those albums as a whole do much for me, but each has at least one iconic song on it. At a push as it is one I have been enjoying recently Houses of the Holy.
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 11:39
| four is my favourite one ever , houses of the holy and third come just after |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 13:06
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Houses of the Holy is number one for me, followed by Led Zep II, IV, I, and then Physical Graffiti. I pretty much love them all, though. ------------- http://gamercards.exophase.com/xbox/user/MillsLayne/" rel="nofollow">  ht |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 13:56
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II is probably my favourite of theirs, followed by I, III and IV.
I am not a fan of the later albums. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 14:31
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III is the only one i really get into still, it has some fun folky tunes and one of my favourite Blues Rock tracks ever -------------  
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Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 15:31
| Physical Graffiti. The proggiest, heaviest, most ideas-rich, fullest expression of their sound. If they'd put 'Achilles' Last Stand' on side 4, replacing a couple of the lesser tracks, it would have been perfect. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 15:41
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russellk wrote:Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 16:00
| The only less-than-essential tracks for me are Boogie With Stu, Night Flight and Black Country Woman. All the rest are pure gold. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 16:02
gonna try one more listening
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 21:55
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Physical Graffiti. And I don't hear any filler. "Black Country Woman" has a great blues mandolin lick, and "Boogie With Stu" features Rolling Stone co-founder and pianist Ian Stewart (that would be "Stu") with that wonderfully warped boogie-woogie on an untuned piano. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 22:00
| Boy, tough call. Probably would go with Houses of the Holy. |
Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 23:47
| You're right, Mr/Ms Dark Elf, there's no filler. Just a couple of tracks I don't see as essential, but still great music. |
Posted By: OzzProg
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 00:01
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II The essence of what Led Zeppelin is. -------------  |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: March 18 2011 at 21:33
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Houses Of The Holy. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 18 2011 at 21:42
then why make a thread?-- and the only filler on Phys is 'Boogie With Stu' hmm, best would probably be II or III, but for personal fave I'd say In Through the Out Door or PG |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 01:39
| I love the three first albums and after that I've pretty much lost interest in Led Zeppelin. But I'd say that I is the best. If there is one album that describes rock'n'roll perfectly, it's that album. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 01:41
This. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 03:13
Remasters?
 Actually the side 1 of Led Zep 4
and side 1 of Led Zep 3
would be the best ever Zep album for me
but I cant go past Led Zep 4 for masterpiece only for side 1 if nothing else. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 08:37
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I have to go with Houses Of The Holy for The Rain Song in particular.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 09:34
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I generally like Led Zeppelin and consider them to be a full-fledged prog band, no matter what others say. "Physical Graffiti" for me, followed by "Third" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 09:46
 ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 09:49
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sure, and why not? Led Zeppeling took the blues and did progress it. look at a song like "Since I've Been Loving You" from their third album; that is progressive blues
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 09:52
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In order: Led Zeppelin LZ4 Presence Physical Graffiti LZ3 Houses Coda LZ2 In through the godawful suck door |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 10:30
| Physical Graffiti |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 11:03
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Probably Houses of the Holy. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 11:05
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Probably, Led Zeppelin IV for me, but I'm not too partial, I love almost all of their albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 06:57
| House of the Holly, but the song remains the same, if we count live albums... |
Posted By: clarkpegasus4001
Date Posted: March 21 2011 at 14:10
Presence 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 21 2011 at 14:19
 Yep, couldn't agree more.III is my favourite. IMO it is by far their most adventurous and progressive album. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 21 2011 at 17:29
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III I IV |
Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 10:02
| I always thought Led Zep were too unsubtle, in your face. Good musicians, but a band of riffs and mad howls. But when I heard Kashmir, I thought that was brilliant. Not sure what album it was on, but must hear the rest if that's representative. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 10:20
| i's on physical graffiti!! |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 10:40
That can only mean you haven't listened to much, and al that you got to listen was opposed to your tastes. But subtlety is an integral part to Zepp's music, too, just as riffs, blues licks, howls and all that. Here's a taste of subtle Zepp: |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 10:42
Not only that I agree, but I think that In My Time Of Dyin' is an even (much) more progressive blues. I'd even stand for the "prog-blues" descriptor in its case. |
Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 18:51
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 19:45
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PG then III
Best song off Prescence.....achilles.. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 21:30
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As far as progressive blues, one only has to look at the original version of "When the Levee Breaks" by Memphis Minnie:
As opposed to the unbelievable reimagining of the song by Zeppelin:
It is an astounding adaptation with deliciously phased and distorted blues harp, stellar slide and the powerful downbeats of John Bonham. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: silcir
Date Posted: March 26 2011 at 09:28
| PG for me. In my time of dying is da sheit. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 18:37
Only for a few songs ... not sure there is a whole lot of "blues" in the 1st and 2nd albums, where they really made music come alive like most others were not. This was serious rock music and then some!
Those bootlegs at the time still show this as a very important band, and quite progressive where too many others only give and did lip service! There was a reason, and a very big reason, why this band was big ... and in concert specially!
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Posted By: jaybird77
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 19:58
| Led Zeppelin I |
Posted By: Diego I
Date Posted: April 05 2011 at 12:41
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First of course, second and third in that order!
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Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: June 15 2011 at 04:39
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Houses of the Holy for me, can always come back to it (even if I skip Dancing Days and The Crunge sometimes)
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Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: June 15 2011 at 13:01
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Zepp III
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: June 23 2011 at 05:00
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Led Zeppelin III ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 23 2011 at 05:27
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SRtS .. Houses bites |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 24 2011 at 10:15
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Houses is great!
I definitely is ahead of it though. Depending on the day it'd be II or IV right behind it. ------------- 
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Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: July 05 2011 at 02:49
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Houses of the Holy and 1 tie for me. I also loved most of Presence, most notably "For Your Life" and "Tea for One" from that album. Having said that, Presence was also the last good album from Zep IMO. This is the first album that I noticed Plant's vocals starting to decline (nothing gold can stay, right?). I never liked In Through the Out Door at all, with the exception of "Fool in the Rain" (guilty pleasure). I still think "Fool in the Rain" is one of the best pop songs of all time and when it comes on the radio, I blast the speakers. I'm ashamed to say I've never explored all of Physical Graffiti. Trust me, it's on my to-do list. ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show) 
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 05 2011 at 14:15
| Physical Graffiti has always been my favorite, followed by III, IV and Houses of the Holy. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: July 05 2011 at 17:20
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Physical Graffiti and then the debut. So kool to see so much love for Graffiti though. Would have thought this was the never ending lV massage. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 05 2011 at 19:16
| Fourth one for me, as far as whole album is concerned, though there are some major songs for me in the other albums. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:39
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The first album is my favourite, closely followed by III, then IV and Physical Graffiti equally, then II. However, they are all excellent albums and the margins between them are very slim. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: avantgrind
Date Posted: July 08 2011 at 08:04
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Houses Of The Holy no question.
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 17:55
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Either: LZ1: Love the violent tracks like "Dazed And Confused", "Communication Breakdown" and "Good Times Bad Times". LZ3: Mostly because the radio doesn't play this. But even if they did, I love the snowy vibe I get off of this. I only wish they had put "Hey Hey What Can I Do" in there. Houses Of The Holy: One of their most diverse record. Plus it contains my favorite songs by Zepp ("Over The Hills And Far Away"). ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: July 14 2011 at 06:51
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Led Zeppelin II, the ultimate guitar album (DigitalDreamDoor's opinion and I like it) Houses of the Holy (for the Supernatural reference) ------------- 
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Posted By: murphydog
Date Posted: July 18 2011 at 08:27
| i love Prescence - Jimmy and Bonzo are on top form throughout and AchillesLast Stand is the greatest Zeppelin track for me - and Tea For One is my fav Zep blues song - Great production too |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: July 18 2011 at 11:23
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Zeppelin 3 and Houses. Not a terribly big fan of Zeppelin 1. ------------- 
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Posted By: trackstoni
Date Posted: July 20 2011 at 12:29
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the way they are from first till Physical , except for third instead of one ! ------------- Tracking Tracks of Rock |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 20 2011 at 12:52
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Houses of the Holy by a considerably large margin. Fouth album is second.
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Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: July 20 2011 at 19:41
| Always been III for me. |
Posted By: Clash
Date Posted: July 21 2011 at 14:47
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Foe me Houses of the Holy and it,s most prog then others. Presence is solid album too, and i don,t know why so many do not understand it - Achilles last stand - prog, others - fat riffing rock, and Tea For One best Zep blue song ever.
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: July 21 2011 at 17:36
| Led Zep 4, It's obvious, it's a Rock Classic like Who's next, |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: July 24 2011 at 05:25
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definitely IV, followed by I. ------------- 
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: July 27 2011 at 18:35
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Zeppelin IV, Physical Graffitti and... I'm weirdly tempted to say it, but I really loved Coda. But hey, IV will always be the winner in the long run. ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 27 2011 at 19:21
Led Zeppelin IV, House of the Holy, Led Zeppelin III, and Led Zeppelin I are my favorites. I think in order as well? 
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 28 2011 at 01:29
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Everything Zep is 6 stars ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: July 28 2011 at 02:22
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IV. Meh. Not the weakest of their albums, but absolutely overrated. There, I said it. ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show)
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 15:51
Exactly this. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 07:10
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Their first, probably. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 18:57
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Physical Graffiti next would either be Houses of the Holy or III
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Posted By: jav1919
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 19:37
| this is tough, I really like all of their albums. But I think I'm going with IV, III or Houses of the Holy. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 20:58
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Making up a compilation by cherry picking my favourite tracks from all their albums is the closest I would ever get to handing out 5 sparklies for anything they've done. At their best Zep conspire to wed metrical sophistication and unprecedented harmonic flavours to time-worn blues artifacts. (and I agree that is laudably progressive in every sense of the word) At their worst they sound like cock rock for the impotent. ------------- 
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Posted By: king cameloyd
Date Posted: August 05 2011 at 02:16
| Led Zeppelin's all albums are great. but my favourite is Physical Graffiti, a truly masterpiece. Then comes Led Zeppelin III and House of the Holy. |
Posted By: wjohnd
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 03:38
would be great, but i suspect we'd argue over which ones to leave off. my least fave tracks on PG are sick again, black country woman, boogie with stu. even with those lesser tracks its myfavourite zep album. |
Posted By: For6luca
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 05:26
| IV |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 13:20
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Houses or Graffiti or III or IV...can't decide. ------------- |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 14:18
| I absolutely love everything up to and including Physical Graffiti. My favorite is III. It's something about the feel of that album, i don't know... |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: August 29 2011 at 01:05
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1. Physical Graffiti 2. Houses of the Holy 3. In Through the Out Door 4. Led Zeppelin IV 5. Led Zeppelin II 6. Led Zeppelin III 7. Led Zeppelin I 8. Presence ------------- 
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 16:19
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Having a hard time choosing my absolute favourite though, but if you're putting me on the spot I would have to say IV. Black Dog, Stairway and When the Levee Breaks. Say no more!
Oh, but Houses has got No Quarter, The Rain Song and The Ocean, PG's got Kashmir, The Rover and In the Light, and III's got Immigrant Song, Out on the Tiles and Tangerine. No, I can't decide either. Too damn hard!
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 16:30
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Third .
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 16:50
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Choose? why do i have to choose? I keep the six first albums
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Posted By: spknoevl
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 07:43
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Houses of the Holy, which I actually didn't like at first, closely followed by II and VI. They're actually all great except for the very last one, but those 3 really stand out for me. ------------- http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: May 29 2012 at 21:53
| Presence, the whole things is great, though Achilles Last Stand is easily the best. Then it's tough, probably Physical Graffiti. But I need to get back into my old Zepp albums, it's been too long since I've listened to anything besides Achilles. |
Posted By: nima1024
Date Posted: May 30 2012 at 14:35
| Led Zeppelin IV for me. ;) |
Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: June 03 2012 at 19:27
| IV, closely followed by I and II. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 03 2012 at 19:50
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: June 11 2012 at 03:48
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Houses of The Holy, followed by Third and Fourth. -------------
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Cthulhu42
Date Posted: June 14 2012 at 16:37
| Led Zeppelin IV, followed by Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti. |
Posted By: Glucose
Date Posted: June 20 2012 at 13:42
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So difficult to say. Can't pick only one. LZ III, because I Iove the atmosphere. Songs were composed in a beautiful cottage Bron yr aur and i feel it. LZ IV because of When the Levee breaks, Stairway, Black Dog, Misty mountain hop and another great songs PG because of Rover, In the Light, Kashmir... ------------- Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground 
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Posted By: SigmundFloyd
Date Posted: June 24 2012 at 22:30
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ZoSo/Led Zeppelin IV Whatever you wanna call it. ------------- “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” ― George Orwell |
Posted By: eleven44
Date Posted: June 25 2012 at 04:37
Posted By: eleven44
Date Posted: June 25 2012 at 04:37
| LZ III. Difficult choice. |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: July 23 2012 at 01:41
| I didn't have a favorite..but I used to surf through Zeppelin III and IV more than the others. "The Battle of Evermore" was just an amazing ghostly type of song. Robert Plant shares the vocal with Sandy Denny and it is very haunting. I had heard tales for decades how Jimmy Page became interested in open tunings from Ireland and India. He seemed to combine old traditional European guitar tunings and composing pieces which were entirely acoustic and the first indication of this was with the Yardbirds when he recorded "White Summer" from the album "Little Games" Musicians often spoke of Jimmy Page and Sandy Denny attending art school together and I had been curious for years wondering if Sandy Denny had an impact on his taste in music. Perhaps he had a personal interest in European Folk guitar tunings prior to meeting her, but it seems that she would have influenced him because she was closely connected with Dave Cousins, Richard Thompson and others in the U.K. A lot of the acoustic playing of Page reminded me of what Fairport Convention and Pentangle were doing in the late 60's when Page was with the Yardbirds. Page was adding this influence to Zeppelin's music in a major way and he seemed serious about the style mastering some amazing technique...which is displayed on some live film footage of Led Zeppelin where Page performs ethnic styles on acoustic close to 10 minutes. He sits on a stool and takes this style seriously as if it may have been a seperate entity for him. |
Posted By: Grape_Jam
Date Posted: July 24 2012 at 07:30
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Either the debut or How The West Was Won. After that, Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin IV and II. The rest I don't really care for that much. ------------- My smile is stuck, I cannot go back to your Frownland. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 24 2012 at 07:56
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Zep is absolutely amasing, even their weakest albums (in my view: IV, Presence ,In Trough) They are one of the most influencial rock bands ever, constantly changing without loosing "the Zep" feel. Dosent matter if you call it prog or not, they are above such irrelevant measures. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: July 24 2012 at 09:23
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It's hard to pick a favorite, and mine has probably changed many times. But I think I might have to go with Houses of the Holy because of "The Song Remains the Same", "No Quarter", "Dancing Days", and "The Ocean" all being on it.
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Posted By: BassoonAng
Date Posted: July 24 2012 at 12:58
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Physical Graffiti
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Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: July 24 2012 at 14:07
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Holy moly, batman!
The House is a rockin' |
Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: December 09 2012 at 17:40
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I will be honest, I can't stand Zep 1 except for Communication Breakdown. Zep 2 is good in parts, never really got into Zep 3, Zep 4 is a masterpiece obviously with Rock and Roll, Misty Mountain Hop and When the Levee Breaks, HOTH I need to check out again, PG is probably my favourite with Custard Pie, Kashmir, Trampled Under Foot, In my Time of Dying, In the Light, The Wanton Song and others. Presence is the underrated gem in their collection, I enjoy it start to finish and In Through the Out Door is fantastic, to my ears, Carouselambra and In the Evening are great. Coda is alright but more for Zeppelin fan-boys. My List: Zep 4, Physical Graffiti(favourite), Presence and In Through The Out Door -------------  
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: December 09 2012 at 17:46
Your definition of 'can't stand' differs slightly from my own!  I can't stand Duran Duran except err nothing. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 09 2012 at 18:05
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